kimchi-reader
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- Extension status: In-App Purchases
- Live on Store
A reader for korean learner
🎯 WHO IS THIS FOR?
You know 500+ Korean words. You want to learn from real Korean content — YouTube, Netflix, novels, news — but looking up words constantly kills the flow. Kimchi Reader fixes that. Use it alongside your textbooks, classes, or any other study method.
📖 WHAT THE EXTENSION DOES
Hover over any Korean word on any website to get an instant popup with definitions, grammar breakdown, hanja origins, idioms, and frequency rank. Both English and Korean monolingual definitions. No copy-pasting, no tab switching.
🔍 Popup dictionary on any Korean website
🎬 Dual Korean-English subtitles on YouTube, Netflix, and Viki
📊 Vocabulary tracking (Unknown → Seen → Known) — words change color as you learn, and you get detailed stats on your vocabulary growth and reading comprehension
⛏️ One-click sentence mining with Anki export
📈 TRACK YOUR PROGRESS
Mark words as you learn them and watch your stats grow. See your known word count, vocabulary breakdown by frequency, comprehension percentage on any content, daily activity time, and more. Everything syncs across devices.
🚀 THE FULL PLATFORM
The extension is part of a larger Korean immersion platform at kimchi-reader.app:
🔎 Content recommendations — find YouTube videos, Netflix shows, and books matched to your level from a catalog of 350,000+ items
📚 Built-in document reader — import Korean books and texts (.epub, .md) and read with the same popup dictionary
🏆 Leaderboards, curated content lists, community features, and more
📱 Android app + iOS (beta)
💳 PAID PRODUCT
Kimchi Reader is a paid subscription with a 7-day free trial (no credit card required). Used by 1,000+ Korean learners. Start at kimchi-reader.app
Latest reviews
- Cried
- Amazing!
- Key
- Literally the best tool out there for learning Korean
- Key
- Literally the best tool out there for learning Korean
- Rein Koop
- Amazing. Best. Must have for Korean learning
- testing123
- I've barely started using it but I'm so excited about this from seeing an app on Reddit. I'm TOPIK 6 but I have kind of given up on trying to find more authentic material to study because it's so time consuming to check vocab. I'm an English teacher in Korea so I've recommended Language Reactor about a thousand times to my students, but Korean doesn't usually work with these apps because of the grammar structures. I'm AMAZED at how the app knows that "날씨가" for example is "날씨" +가 when you hover over it. I wanted to write a review despite not having used it long because it seriously works so well and so many learners need to know about it! Dev please post to r/korean!!
- Adrian
- got me so hyped im doing backflips rn
- Adrian
- got me so hyped im doing backflips rn
- 웨슬리
- Really useful extension for learning Korean. Better than most other options as it understands that a word can take several grammatical forms, or have grammatical features connected to it, and does not assume that it is a different word (or lemma). It's still currently in development, but the developer is working very hard and is super responsive to us users. :)
- 웨슬리
- Really useful extension for learning Korean. Better than most other options as it understands that a word can take several grammatical forms, or have grammatical features connected to it, and does not assume that it is a different word (or lemma). It's still currently in development, but the developer is working very hard and is super responsive to us users. :)